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Can asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) be part solution to the Indian debt problem?
Bhagwati, Jaimini; Khan, M. Shuheb; Bogathi, … - 2017
examines the bad debt situation in India, the circumstances under which Asset Reconstruction Companies were registered and the … changing regulatory requirements under which they have been operating in India. Till now, the extent to which ARCs have helped …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638458
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Innovation, efficiency and inclusion : integration of digital technologies in the Indian microfinance sector
Ray, Saon; Paul, Sandeep; Miglani, Smita - 2018
Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance … operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet another opportunity for microfinance institutions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919386
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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488633
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Is the Eurozone on the mend? : Latin American examples to analyze the euro question
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Powell, … - 2014
Several European countries face challenges reminiscent of those faced by the emerging economies of Latin America. The economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286667
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Eurozone : the untold economics
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2013
This paper dwells on the Eurozone woes and addresses the origins of the transition from a fictitious boom to a painful bust by unravelling (i) the supply-side structural imbalances that formed the core-periphery economic divide, and (ii) the necessity of the periphery's sovereign debt to finance...
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Recessions, the energy mix and environmental policy
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2023
How do severe recessions, such as those brought about by the Global Financial Crisis or the COVID-19 pandemic, affect the composition of energy generation between green and dirty sources? Does creative destruction during recessions result in a sustained greening of the energy mix? The empirical...
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Financial conditions and density forecasts for US output and inflation
Alessandri, Piergiorgio; Mumtaz, Haroon - 2014
When do financial markets help in predicting economic activity? With incomplete markets, the link between financial and real economy is state-dependent and financial indicators may turn out to be useful particularly in forecasting "tail" macroeconomic events. We examine this conjecture by...
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Foreign bank behavior during financial crises
Adams-Kane, Jonathon; Caballero, Julián; Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2014
This paper studies whether lending by foreign banks is affected by financial crises. The paper pairs a bank-level dataset of foreign ownership with information on banking crises and examines whether the credit supply of majority foreignowned banks that underwent home-country crises differs...
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Will macroprudential policy counteract monetary policy's effects on financial stability?
Agur, Itai; Demertzis, Maria - 2018
How does monetary policy impact upon macroprudential regulation? This paper models monetary policy's transmission to bank risk taking, and its interaction with a regulator's optimization problem. The regulator uses its macroprudential tool, a leverage ratio, to maintain financial stability,...
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Financing India's disaster risk resilience strategy
Ray, Saon; Jain, Samridhi; Thakur, Vasundhara - 2021
In this paper, we try to cover a whole range of polices and schemes that have been undertaken in Indiato finance disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby integrating DRR and climate change adaptation strategies for...
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